"Lauri Alanko" <la@xxxxxx> wrote: > I'm going to get a bit religious here: > anything longer than a screenful shouldn't be written in shell ... Whence cometh this religion? I've heard of a modularity principle wherein no one function, in any language, ought to be longer than a page, but what's special about shell that warrants such a further restriction? BTW, to adherents of the mentioned religion, this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/files/Attic/portmaster.sh.in?rev=2.32;content-type=text/plain -- at just under 3600 lines -- is likely one of the greater heresies around :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html